Casper: A Spirited Beginning

★ 5.4•1997-09-09•90 min

“It's a whole new scream!”

Before he met and befriended the other ghouls at Applegate Manor, friendly ghost Casper meets young Chris Carson, a lonely kid who decides to teach Casper how to be a proper ghost.

Status

Released

Budget

$3.5M

Cast

Jeremy Foley

Casper (voice)

Brendon Ryan Barrett

Chris Carson

Steve Guttenberg

Tim Carson

Lori Loughlin

Sheila Fistergraff

Rodney Dangerfield

Johnny Hunt

Shannon Chandler

Jennifer

Michael McKean

Bill Case

Richard Moll

Principal Rabie

Jim Ward

Stretch (voice)

Bill Farmer

Stinky (voice)

Jess Harnell

Fatso (voice)

Pauly Shore

Snivel (voice)

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Reviews

1 review

r96sk

TMDB User•Jan 24, 2022

★ 4

<em>'Casper: A Spirited Beginning'</em> is rather rubbish, not that that is of any surprise. It's a stripped back version of the original in every way possible, with the animation - which, admittedly, isn't the greatest in the 1995 release - particularly standing out as being awful. The cast are OK, if entirely forgettable - perhaps with the exceptions of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_McGill" rel="nofollow">Chuck McGill</a>, Michael McKean, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Lion_King_(franchise)_characters#:~:text=and%20kill%20him.-,Mufasa,-%5Bedit%5D" rel="nofollow">Mufasa</a>, James Earl Jones. Let's see what <em>'Casper Meets Wendy'</em> cobbles together...

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